Determinants of Rice Productivity and Technical Efficiency in the Philippines

Krishna H. Koirala, Ashok Mishra () and Samarendu Mohanty

No 162501, 2014 Annual Meeting, February 1-4, 2014, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Agricultural production determines the efficiency level of households in their farming activities. In the developing countries farmers do not use all potential technological resources, thus making inefficient decisions in their agricultural activities. So, this paper focuses to measure the technical efficiency of rice production and identified determinants of technical efficiency of rice farmers in Philippines. The Loop Survey of the Institute of Rice Research Institute (2007-2012) was analyzed using stochastic frontier production method in the Cobb-Douglas functional form. Result shows that fuel, fertilizer, land rent, planting season, and land area are the factors that affect both production and technical efficiency of rice production. We found mean technical efficiency score of 0.54.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2014-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.162501

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